A Day of Fun with Grands!

So the family is away at family camp in Bend, Oregon, and I'm home alone taking care of dogs, puppies, flowers, etc. So on Friday, I picked up Marilyn and took her to town for some Grandma time! 

Then, we came back home with our thrift store finds and played for a couple hours.  We found some very cool puzzles, the fishing game and some playdoh!  Marilyn is super good at puzzles!  

Then, in the evening, I headed over to John and Valerie's to babysit the babes while they went out for a date night!  They seemed pretty happy to see Grandma if I might say so myself! ;-) 

 

A Few Random Pictures of Our July Summer Days and Nights!

Joe and Brielle biking down to the pond for a little fishing! 

A few sparklers and roman candles left to light and enjoy!

 

Tea Time!

Sweet Linda W. invited us girls for her 400th and ONE tea party! 

She makes us feel so special and offers us such amazing foods and treats along with our tea!

Pastor Dean wanted to use a tattoo stencil kit that uses glue and glitter that he had on hand . . . but the glue in the kit was too dried out.  He then tried Elmer's glue, but that didn't work either.  :-(  But it sure was sweet of him to try! 

So then he moved on to making the origami butterflies for them!
 

Some Summer Fun!

We were very blessed with an invitation to join 2 home-groups that combined for a special BBQ social!

The house where it was held is on a dairy farm in a neighboring town that has this river running beside the property!  I think all the kids were in it before I got down to take some pictures!  It was in the evening and fairly chilly that night!  So I was only able to get pictures of Brielle and Peter . . .the river diehards! 

 

July 4th 2021 ~ Evening with Family and Friends!

This was one of John and Valerie's first social outings with the babies other than going to church! 

Just before Mr. Johnson had a "situation" on his hands with the BBQ deciding to charbroil the meats!

No pressure, Steven, as they all watch on wondering what to do! 

Lots and lots of kids everywhere you look! 

These fireworks shot lots of parachutes in the air all at once! So all the kids had some to chase down!

This was just smaller version of the volleyball game that happened earlier in the night.  Sadly, I never got around to getting the larger group playing! 

They put on quite the fireworks show with fireworks brought by several families!